After our wonderful trip to Holland in November 2014 I have been looking for an opportunity to reacquaint our friendship withHenri and the Lotus Club Holland folks we met. Having been liaising with Henri over the last few months this opportunity hasfinally come along with the Classic Wings and Wheels Event at Gilze-Rijen airbase on Saturday 26th August 2017. This eventonly happens every 2 years.http://www.classicwings-wheels.nl/english-abstract.html

We have already registered and also booked Hotel in Breda which is close to the airbase. We shall be travelling out on Thursday24th August via Eurotunnel and then driving through France, Belgium into Holland. Returning on Eurotunnel on Sunday 27th August.

If there is anyone else in LEC that may be interested please look at the links above. This could be a fantastic opportunity for someLEC members to get together.

Thought I would bring your attention to this event again as original post was put up 3 months ago and there is only 2 monthsbefore the event. So enough time to arrange things if anyone else is interested.

It's creaping up and I've been busy getting 'Merlot' prepared for our road trip to Holland, starting on Thursday. I'm hoping to put some more photo'sand notes as the weekend progresses. A couple of pics today as I've finished getting her ready.

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It's now been a few days since returning from our 500 mile round trip to Holland after attending the Classic Wings and Wheels event with the Lotus Club of Holland. This event is held every 2 years and this year the Lotus Club of Holland were celebrating their 40th anniversary. It wasa good trip and 'Merlot' behaved and purred all the way without a murmur. We stayed in a hotel just outside Breda which was about 10 milesfrom the event location. This was held on the Dutch airbase in Gilze-Rijen. Because of this it was a closed event and only invited car clubswere allowed entry. The organisation was impeccable and all the food and drink were part of the cost. There was an airshow which includedSpitfire and Hurricane demos plus other planes flying demonstrations. Lots of other car clubs. The historic club Lotus had also come overand there were more than 120 Lotus from around Europe on display.

I met up with Henri and Peter D whilst over there. Henri presented me with a mini 'Merlot' but I will put some photos up under another Topic.